Today's Trivia Question

The theme for the week is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Huck and Jim are headed for Cairo, Illinois, and from there, Jim hopes to get to Ohio, where he will buy his family's freedom. Cairo, Illinois is the southernmost city in Illinois, and lies at the confluence of the Mississippi River and what other river, the largest tributary of the Mississippi by volume?

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The Ohio River

Wednesday's question
What fictional town, based on Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri, is the hometown of both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn?

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St. Petersburg

 
Tuesday's question

The typed manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the first typewritten manuscript ever delivered to a printer for publication. On modern QWERTY keyboards, what letter sits between the X and the V?

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C

Monday's question
Unlike The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain did not use the word “the” in the title of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Grammatically speaking, what part of speech is “the”?

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an article

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